We would like to express our sincere appreciation to the invited lecturers and authors for their excellent contributions. Special thanks go to the members of the Program committee, who solicited papers and elaborated the conference program.

We kept also the conference tradition and organized the Young authors contest. We would like to thank 18 young authors from 8 countries who participated in the contest. Special thanks go to the members of the Young author award committee who diligently worked through the excellent papers.

Following the tradition of previous meetings we have also organized the Best poster award. Thank you to the members of the Best poster award committee who evaluated the posters according to clearness of objectives, results and conclusions, aesthetics and attractiveness, as well as according to scientific relevance.